By Mens Resource Center|2026-03-25T12:05:20-04:00March 26th, 2026|
When Randy Flood, psychotherapist and Director of the Men’s Resource Center, received “The Gales of November” by John U. Bacon as a gift, he says he “absolutely devoured” it. Bacon’s book resonated with Flood not [...]
By Randy Flood|2026-02-24T11:34:48-05:00February 24th, 2026|Child Custody Evaluation, Counseling and Therapy, Family, Parenting|
This article is taken from a presentation by Randy Flood at the 2025 PASG (Parental Alienation Study Group) conference, September 10 - 12, 2025, in Toronto, Canada. It first appeared in the Fall 2025 issue [...]
By Mens Resource Center|2026-02-12T16:39:50-05:00January 15th, 2026|
In the first segment of a two-part Revealing Men series on how men will adjust to the advance of artificial general intelligence (AGI)*, Randy Flood, director and co-founder of the Men’s Resource Center, describes what [...]
By Mens Resource Center|2025-12-16T20:04:04-05:00December 16th, 2025|
In this holiday segment for the Revealing Men podcast, host Randy Flood and his colleague and son, Zach, take listeners through a laugh-inducing, scene-by-scene psychological analysis of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s a humorous and [...]
By Mens Resource Center|2025-11-05T11:39:43-05:00November 6th, 2025|
It might seem unusual for a counseling and therapy center to publicly celebrate the anniversary of its founding. But the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan (MRC) is, itself, unusual. Co-founder and Director, Randy Flood, [...]
By Mens Resource Center|2025-11-06T09:21:48-05:00November 4th, 2025|Counseling and Therapy|
In the 1960s, Betty Friedan described the invisible emotional pain many women carried as “the problem that has no name.” Today, many men face their own unnamed problem. While public conversation often focuses on toxic [...]
By Mens Resource Center|2025-10-01T18:35:01-04:00October 2nd, 2025|
Recent events remind us that political violence rarely ends with one act—it sparks more violence. Politicians then exploit that violence to score ideological points or to win votes. But too often, the spotlight skips over [...]
By Al Heystek|2025-09-02T15:50:39-04:00September 4th, 2025|Counseling and Therapy, Emotional Health, Male Socialization, Raising Boys|
Al Heystek reflects on the formation of the Youthful Sex Offender Treatment Program. He notes that "Through this work, we’ve been able to protect public safety, reduce risk, and offer transformative, growth-producing counseling to young [...]
By Randy Flood|2025-08-29T14:37:42-04:00August 29th, 2025|Counseling and Therapy, Emotional Health, Spirituality|
My friend and colleague Al Heystek came into my life back in 1999. Hardly a wild party like Prince sang about, but an unforgettable candlelit men’s gathering that Charlie Donaldson and I hosted—bringing Paul Kivel [...]
By Mens Resource Center|2025-05-20T11:27:12-04:00April 24th, 2025|
Randy Flood, host of the Revealing Men podcast, is an avid reader of The Sun, a non-profit, ad-free magazine that publishes personal essays, short stories, and poetry. It was there that he first encountered author, [...]